Susan J. Demas: Protestors threatened Whitmer's murder. GOP leaders haven't condemned them.

[catbyte]

Welcome to Michigan in the Trump era

It’s an extraordinarily low bar for Michigan Republican leaders to condemn heavily armed protestors calling for the governor’s murder, and yet they’ve managed to fail to clear it.

You can stop holding your breath waiting, too. There were “men with rifles yelling” at senators from the chamber gallery during a Thursday session, as state Sen. Dayna Polehanki (D-Livonia) noted, as the GOP majority passed measures attempting to quash Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s power and sue her for measures trying to stop the spread of a pandemic that’s killed more than 3,700 in our state and more than 60,000 nationwide.

This was an act of intimidation and it wouldn’t have happened if GOP leadership didn’t want it to.

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So there you have it. Republican leadership is just putting a respectable sheen on the crude and violent arguments made by protestors. This is what the GOP is today in Michigan.

https://www.michiganadvance.com/2020/05/01/susan-j-demas-protestors-threatened-whitmers-murder-gop-leaders-havent-condemned-them/

[onecaliberal]

1. And WHY the fuck aren't these thugs in jail?

[11 Bravo]

3. I'm pretty sure it involves a melanin deficiency.

[onecaliberal]

11. I was going to add to my comment to include that very point.

It’s so fucking true. Can you imagine armed black folks storming the state Capitol of some southern state and not all being shot dead by police?

[sellitman]

2. These Patriots with guns were good people.

According to The Orange Anus.

[Budi]

4. How DID they get into the Capitol with guns? No metal detectors?

Cops should have been wearing protective face shields.

*This screaming thug would be shot dead were he a black man on the street

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[farmbo]

6. Sadly... open carry in the Michigan statehouse is perfectly legal.

It was passed by both houses of the legislature and signed into law by the previous Republican governor... the same Governor who will be remembered for poisoning Flint’s water supply.
It’s also permitted in several other states.

[Budi]

7. Wow! Few Statehouses allow this. NRA influence in MI is apparant.

What about Fed courthouses or airport TSA clearance.
Guess that would fall under Federal law though.

Ugh.

[smirkymonkey]

9. WTF?

What is wrong with this country? Can nobody see how insane this is?

[BComplex]

5. I really hope this backfires in a big way for the republicans in every race in the country.

All we need is for democrats to constantly pin all this crap on republicans.

[crickets]

8. "and it wouldn't have happened if GOP leadership didn't want it to."

There you go.

[smirkymonkey]

10. Why aren't they being arrested for this?

I don't get it. If people are standing there in the State House with a loaded gun and are threatening to murder the Governor, why are they not being arrested?

[gratuitous]

14. Maybe they said it sarcastically?

But yeah, Michigan seems to be edging into Idaho East territory.

[Paladin]

12. Of course they haven't been condemned. THEY'RE WHITE. (nt)

[ChoosenWisely]

13. Couragous Senator makes comment

Our Michigan State Sen. Dayna Polehanki, glad I voted for her in the Blue wave 2018 elections. Cant wait till they ungerrymander our state in 2021 and we have a bigger blue wave in the 2022 State elections.